Faith in Every Footstep

This week we worked on our 2 wheel chair projects, our 4 water stations, a school library project, and our English Class.  At our English class they asked us some questions that were way beyond us:  What is a subjective verb?  What is auxillary verb? What is a nominative case?  We think it is so funny, us teaching English! We need some of you over here to help out:)  Since all our students can read English, we just tell them to read, read, read--aloud. Listening to Conference talks and then reading them aloud is a good practice. Spend 2 to 3 hours a day doing this.  We tell them listening and then reading aloud is the best way they can get familiar enough with English that they can understand a native speaker and speak fluently enough that a native English speaker can understand them.  We tell them one hour a week is not enough to make hardly any progress.  They want to know all the grammer rules and they memorize a lot of words, but they cannot use the word in a sentence and they have no idea what we are talking about when we try to explain a grammer rule.  

We heard this week who will replace us the last of May, Elder and Sister Washburn.  This is good news so there is not a big gap between the Humanitarian senior couples.

This is Laurie--I was asked to lead the singing in Relief Society last week--the sister who usually does it is gone to America to visit some family--and this week the Presidency asked me to help them all learn to lead the singing--so, me, and our sweet translator, Taivnaa, explained about measures and 4 beats to a measure and drew on the white board the 4/4 time pattern--then everyone stood up and followed along as the two of us lead the song.  We faced the front so they could see the right direction our arms were going. Next week I need to watch them all lead so I know if they're getting it, or not. Then maybe I can have them take turns leading.  Anyway, it was fun:)

Being Sick

I have been sick for 6 weeks now.  I spent 2 days in a hospital clinic.  I am doing much better.  The fever has gone, my blood oxygen is higher,  I do not cough nearly as much,  I feel better and they say I look better.  We have been doing a little work at home, processing paper work on projects.  

We have 9 projects right now going on:  4 water stations, a wheel chair project to bring 600 wheel chairs in April to Mongolia, a wheel chair users project where we are going to bring repair parts and give wheel chair repair training, an English Conference to be held the first week of May, a school library project, and a vision project. We also have an alcohol rehab project we are working on.  So even though we have been sick we have still been doing  a little from our apartment.  Grandma has been teaching our English class for those wanting to pass the Michagan test so they can go to BYU-H.  

Spring is just 4 months away and then it will be time to leave Mongolia.